Died

Ron Taylor, 49, Broadway actor who starred in It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues and who created the voice of the plant Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors, of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles ... Valorie Jones, 45, who was a member of the 1970s R&B sister singing group the Jones Girls whose hit songs included You're Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else, Who Can I Run To? and I Just Love the Man, in Detroit ...

Patricia A. Jones, 63, a Chicago educator and former municipal employee who was the wife of Illinois Senate Democratic Leader Emil Jones, of cancer at St. Francis Hospital & Health Center ... Justice Robert D. Glass, 78, the first Black member of Connecticut's Supreme Court who was also its first Black full-time juvenile court judge, in Waterbury, CT ... Richard King, 69, former area director of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), in Las Vegas ... Harold L. Keith, 81, a former editor of the Pittsburgh Courier who later became a U.S. government press officer, after a lengthy illness in D.C... Charity Adams Earley, 83, who was the first Black commissioned officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and commander of the only battalion of Black women who served overseas during World War II, in Dayton ... John Jackson, 77, who went from gravedigger to one of the pre-eminent blues musicians in the country, of kidney failure in Fairfax, VA.